Mop-holder.



B. E. SHANNAHAN.

MOP HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12. was

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I moic-r'romnsua. 1,245,990. fiaedflcaflfln of Letters Patent Patented Nov. 6, 191?; I A Application filed J'une 18, 1916. Serial Bo. 108,051. i To all whom it may concern: against bar D and pull the handle toward Be it known that I, BERNARD E. Smur s- HAN, a citizen of the United States, resldingat Binghamton, in the county of Broome a and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop- Holders, of which the following is a specification. n

My invention relates to an improvement in mop holders, in which the mo is automatically gripped and held in e handle head, and from which it can be automatically released from the handle head. It has for its object to provide a ready means for inserting, holdin and releasing the mop from a mop han e, without resort to turn screws and levers commonly used, for such purposes. With this ob'ect in view my invention consists in certam novel features of construction and arrangement of parts-as will be hereinafter fully described and ointed out in the claim, reference being ad to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device. to Fig. 2 is a top lan view of a partgpf my device the handle being shown'in section. The same reference characters denote like arts in each of the severalfigures of-the wings. In carrying out my invention I 80 provide a red A mounted in an convenient manner in the end of the hen e B, and I have pivotally mounted on the handle rod-A- the lower cross bar 0 and slidably mounted on red A, I have the up er cross bar D; and

p I have the guide frame E and slidably mounted on which frame E is the lower crow bar C. Mounted in the up er crossbar D, I have the slotted tube 3 w ich has in it the side slot 4. The

40 upper end of 8 projects above the upper cross bar D and-its upper end has a slopm surface'5. The rod A is slidably mounted in and has slidable connection with the tube -3 mounted between the bars 0 and D. I-

46 have the coil splring 6, and mounted in the side of red A, have the l 7 which projects outward through the 0t 4. In the operation of my device and in orxler to open the mop handle head, I place my foot .is firmly .frame E. When I wish to remove the mop me which causes the lower end of guide frame E to pass downward, leaving an open space between frame E and cross bar 0, and the same time lug 7 moves upward in slot 4 carried byrod A until the lug 7 moves beyond the upper end of tube 3 at 5. I then turn the andle B which turns red A which turns the lug 7, until it has passed the entrance to the slot 4 and rests on the end of the tube 3 and causes the gmde frame to be locked in an open posi- I tion to receive the mop between said guide frame and the lower cross bar 0. Having placed the mop then within guide frame opening E, I again turn the handle B which turns rod A until lug 7 is opposite to slot 3 and enters when the coil spring 6, before contracted, now expands and pressing against the lower or bar 6, causes the bar 0 to be forced downward and the guide frame E forced upward, and thus the map held between the bar and the gui e I repeat the operation above described by gacmg my foot against the upper cross bar forcin the g'mde frame open and until lug 7 is ocked over the end of tube 3 and then remove the mop.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and for which I desire Letters Patent is-as follows:

In a mo holder, a handle, a handle rod extending om the end of the same, a 'de frame having mounted therein 'a otted tube, said handle rod being slidably mounted in said tube, a In mounted in the handle rod and engaging t e tube slot, a bar slidabl mounted in the guide frame and pivota y mounted on the end of the handle rod, a coil spring'surrounding said handle rod and tube, and extending between the guide frame and the pivotally mounted bar.

whereof I have aflixed my presence of two witnesses.

HANNAHAN.

In testimony signature in the BERNARD E. S 1' in 

